target is the selector that will make it load a new page but it's deprecated. See why here (http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/03/target-blank/).

silverz

12-13-2010, 02:33 AM

Thank you Excavator,

This works in general but the main content of the page is pushed down. Is there a way to keep it from doing that?

Excavator

12-13-2010, 02:44 AM

Thank you Excavator,

This works in general but the main content of the page is pushed down. Is there a way to keep it from doing that?

Yes there is. Can you link us to your test site? Post your code if you can't give us a link.
When posting code in the forum, please use the code tags, &#91;code&#93;&#91;/code&#93; - available with the # button in the post edit window.
This will wrap your code in a scroll box which greatly helps the readability of your post.

silverz

12-13-2010, 03:27 AM

Yes, you can look at my test blog at puttouse.com (http://www.puttouse.com/). You will see that once the snow image loads, you will have to scroll down to see where the blog begins. I would like the blog to be at the top of the page, while the sides still being hyperlinked to a second site.

I just realized this is an issue with the Safari and Firefox browsers.

Thank you

silverz

12-13-2010, 06:16 AM

Please let me know if this is doable

weddingflower

12-13-2010, 07:58 AM

Thank you buddy interesting answer.

Excavator

12-13-2010, 09:47 AM

Yes, you can look at my test blog at puttouse.com (http://www.puttouse.com/). You will see that once the snow image loads, you will have to scroll down to see where the blog begins. I would like the blog to be at the top of the page, while the sides still being hyperlinked to a second site.

I just realized this is an issue with the Safari and Firefox browsers.

Ok, that works, thank you. Last issue is whether there is a way to have the background picture fit in its entirety width wise. Right now it fits a typical 1280x1024 screen(typically laptops) and about 9/10 of a more square screen(typically desktop). So the question is whether there is a way for the full width of the image to be displayed in either square or rectangular screens.

Excavator

12-14-2010, 11:38 AM

Ok, that works, thank you. Last issue is whether there is a way to have the background picture fit in its entirety width wise. Right now it fits a typical 1280x1024 screen(typically laptops) and about 9/10 of a more square screen(typically desktop). So the question is whether there is a way for the full width of the image to be displayed in either square or rectangular screens.

Since you're already doing the overlay thing with your link it's not a far step to doing the overlay with the image as well. Look at the source code for this resizable background image (http://nopeople.com/CSS%20tips/background_image_resize/index.html).

This isn't usually a very good solution an odd sized browser window can skew the image way out of proportion.
Another example here (http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/background.html).